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To: betty boop
Oh, I absolutely agree with you about the bizarre claims of Wilson - and that it belies the happenstance explanation usually offered by those who see "matter in all its motions" as "all that there is". I just can't resist commenting on geometry. LOL!

And I'm tickled pink you are deep into the observer problem! Fascinating subject, I've been meditating about it also.

745 posted on 05/02/2006 2:07:10 PM PDT by Alamo-Girl
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To: Alamo-Girl; marron; PatrickHenry; Doctor Stochastic; Right Wing Professor; King Prout; hosepipe; ...
I just can't resist commenting on geometry.

And I'm so glad that you do, Alamo-Girl! As you say, there is something eerie about "the unreasonable effectiveness of mathematics" as a sort of "mirror image" of physics. We can "see" through mathematics, especially geometry, the things that we cannot see with our eyes. String theory would be "out of business" absent this understanding. And string theory is quite respectable in the scientific community these days.

Notwithstanding that string theory is thoroughly Platonic in spirit. :^) As are most string theorists, if Lisa Randall's observation is correct.

Thank you so much for writing, dear sister!

780 posted on 05/02/2006 3:25:47 PM PDT by betty boop (The world of Appearance is Reality’s cloak -- "Nature loves to hide.")
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